The Covered Sin: Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism (cape Books)
About This Novel
Historian Edward Baptiste tells readers the fact that in the 80 years after American independence, the expansion of slavery promoted the development and modernization of the United States. In just a few decades, the South grew from dilapidated tobacco plantations in the coastal panhandle to a transcontinental cotton empire, laying an important foundation for the United States to develop into a modern capitalist industrial economy. Baptiste combines slave oral accounts, plantation-related records, and relevant statements from newspapers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves to give a new and bold interpretation of American history. He makes readers aware of the violence at the heart of American hegemony and the survival desire and resistance that ended slavery and created the culture that underpinned America's deepest dreams of freedom.
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Sometimes what we think is a beautiful surface, or is very ordinary, hides in the inconspicuous corners some darkness that we don't want to see or think only exists in the world of books. There are many people working hard for these, so why aren't we the ones who enjoy it?
Sometimes I complain about my life, why is it so bad? Why is it so dull? But even though we don't know, there are still many people who want to live a life that they dream about, which is the ordinary and boring life we have now.
Sometimes we are still too naive, always thinking that the dark corners in books will not exist in the real world, but art comes from reality, which is not unreasonable. Maybe many of them are closely related to reality.
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Official(3)Scraped 2mo ago
Sometimes what we think is a beautiful surface, or is very ordinary, hides in the inconspicuous corners some darkness that we don't want to see or think only exists in the world of books. There are many people working hard for these, so why aren't we the ones who enjoy it?
Sometimes I complain about my life, why is it so bad? Why is it so dull? But even though we don't know, there are still many people who want to live a life that they dream about, which is the ordinary and boring life we have now.
Sometimes we are still too naive, always thinking that the dark corners in books will not exist in the real world, but art comes from reality, which is not unreasonable. Maybe many of them are closely related to reality.
